Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 115

20:32

In the Novomoskovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, there are victims and significant damage as a result of shelling, reports the head of the regional council Nikolai Lukashuk. He does not give exact data on the victims.

In addition, today, according to him, the Russian military shelled the territory of the Apostolovsky community (the power line was damaged) and Velikaya Kostromka in the Zelenodolsk community. There are no casualties in these communities.

Local telegram channels posted photos and videos of explosions in the Novomoskovsky district.

18:59

Russian troops fired at a gas processing plant in the Izyum district of the Kharkov region. This was reported by Suspіlne Novyni with reference to the head of the Donetsk territorial community Anatoly Nozdrachov.

As a result of the shelling, a fire broke out. Video and photos of the fire were posted local telegram channels by .

This afternoon the industrial district of Kharkov was shelled . There were no victims or injured.

Kharkiv and the region were also fired upon by the Russian military on the night of June 18.

17:46

During the next exchange of prisoners, five people returned to Ukraine, according to the main intelligence department of the country's Defense Ministry.

Five Ukrainians were exchanged for five Russians. All exchanged Ukrainians are civilians. Four of them were captured during the fighting in the Kyiv region, including three during the occupation of Gostomel.

The Russian side has not yet confirmed the exchange of prisoners.

17:34

The Security Service of Ukraine announced suspicion to the director of broadcasting in Russian of the RT channel Anton Krasovsky, according to the website of the department.

The journalist is suspected of calling for the genocide of the Ukrainian people and the violent overthrow of power in the country. The issue of putting Krasovsky on the international wanted list is being resolved.

Anton Krasovsky himself posted an official message about the suspicion on Wednesday, June 15, in a telegram. The document is dated June 14th.

Earlier, the Security Service of Ukraine put on the international wanted list for public support of the war the Director General of "Russia Today" Dmitry Kiselyov and the host of "Russia 1" Olga Skabeeva.

16:29

More than 5.1 million refugees from Ukraine are in Europe, according to the data of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

3.4 million Ukrainians applied for temporary asylum or similar status in their host country.

At the same time, since the beginning of the war, 7.7 million border crossings from Ukraine have been registered. The UN notes that this number includes border crossings by both Ukrainians leaving the country and citizens of third countries. People returning to their country (for example, citizens of Romania leaving Ukraine for Romania) are not counted, although there may be Ukrainians with dual citizenship among them.

The UN also counted nearly 2.5 million return border crossings.

According to the weekly report , more than 7.1 million people inside Ukraine were forced to move to other regions of the country.

15:30

Activist Kase Kik, accused of petty hooliganism after ordering a karaoke song in Ukrainian and talking about torture by security forces, left Russia out of fear for his safety. This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot".

Where exactly Kase Kik went is not specified. The Natpress agency assumes that he is now in Turkey.

On May 13, Kase Kik had dinner at a cafe in Cherkessk with his friend and ordered a karaoke song in Ukrainian. There was also a company of employees of the FSB and Center E structures in the hall. One of the security officials approached the activist and began to ask why he ordered the Ukrainian song and whether he was against “our president.”

As a result, Kase Kik was taken to the department of the law enforcement agency (which one is not specified), where, according to him, five to seven people beat him in turn all night. The next day, the activist was taken to court. The court found him guilty of "petty hooliganism" and arrested Kik for seven days.

Kase Kik from his student days took part in the national youth movement "Adyge-Khase KChR", and from 2008 to 2012 he headed the "Cherkasy Congress of the KChR". He was involved, in particular, in organizing funeral processions on May 21 in Cherkessk.

14:58

14:34

Open Space suspended its activities in Moscow after the police came to an exhibition of works by political prisoners, and the volunteers of the organization were searched. This is stated in the statement of "Open Space".

“In short: we do not fully understand what they want from us and how events will unfold, so Space in Moscow goes on vacation for a while. St. Petersburg Space will report separately on its future plans, ”the organization said.

The exhibition " Autonomous Zone " with the works of political prisoners of 2021-2022 opened on June 12. Among others, it featured works by St. Petersburg artist Sasha Skochilenko.

14:22

Two employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations died as a result of shelling in Donetsk, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.

According to the agency, one of the shells hit a trading stall near the Topaz bus stop in the Kuibyshevsky district of the city. A rescue tank truck arrived at the scene, and an “artillery shell of the VFU” flew in seven meters from it.

One firefighter died on the spot, three more rescuers and the driver were hospitalized. The driver died in the hospital.

was posted today on the Typical Donetsk telegram channel A video of the consequences of the shelling of the Prodmash plant in Petrovsky district, Kievsky district , a minibus on Shchorsa Street, the Topaz plant and other objects in the city . Local authorities blame the Ukrainian army for the shelling.

14:04

Young people who damaged the letter Z in Cheboksary were charged with vandalism. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chuvashia. They face up to three years in prison.

Prior to this, local residents aged 22 and 24 were subjected to an administrative report on “discrediting” the Russian army. The Leninsky District Court of Cheboksary imposed a fine of 30,000 rubles on each.

two young men damaged the plastic casing of the giant letter Z (the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chuvashia calls it a “light installation”). On the night of June 17,

13:37

In Kherson, an explosion occurred on Senyavin Street, writes Suspіlne Novyni.

An explosive device was attached to a tree and detonated on an Audi car. The head of colony No. 90 was driving. He cooperates with the occupying authorities of the city. The driver survived. According to eyewitnesses, a cyclist passing by was injured.

RIA Novosti, citing a source in the Russian law enforcement agency , reports that "Ukrainian terrorists attempted to assassinate the head of the USIN in the Kherson region Sobolev." According to the agency, he is in the hospital with injuries, but nothing threatens his life.

13:21

According to preliminary data, two people were injured as a result of a missile attack on the Inhulets district of Krivoy Rog, according to the head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional administration, Valentin Reznichenko.

Social networks reported two "arrivals" in Krivoy Rog.

13:10

From September 1, 2022, it will be forbidden to study Russian in public schools in Nikolaev. The corresponding decision of the executive committee of the city council was posted on Facebook by the deputy director of the Nikolaev Lyceum named after Oleg Olzhych Margarita Bondarenko.

Primary school (grades 1-4) will no longer be able to study in Russian, and Russian as a subject, course or elective will be banned in all grades (from 1 to 11).

The termination of the study of the Russian language in schools was previously reported in the Department of Education of Zhytomyr.

Advisor to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko , said that in the occupied city, schoolchildren are forbidden to speak Ukrainian even during breaks.

12:33

In St. Petersburg, unknown persons beat up activist Oleg Klimenchuk, who was going out on June 1 to an anti-war picket. about this . He himself told OVD-Info

According to the activist, he was attacked near his house on the evening of June 14. One of the attackers said, “How much did you sell out, bitch? If you come out again, I'll kill you!" and “You don’t have to go to the cops, I’m a cop myself.” Klimenchuk recorded the beatings and wrote a statement to the police.

Klymenchuk previously said that after the picket on June 1, he and his wife received threats, and on June 9, two unknown people knocked on his apartment several times.

12:23

Academic Council of the National Music Academy of Ukraine named after P.I. Tchaikovsky unanimously voted against renaming the conservatory, according to the website of the educational institution.

NMAU rector Maksim Timoshenko suggested discussing the issue of renaming due to the "ambiguous attitude" to the name of Tchaikovsky at a meeting on June 16. Several conservatory faculty opposed the renaming.

“Ethnically, Pyotr Tchaikovsky was not Russian: his father was from a kind of Zaporozhye Cossacks, and his mother was French. Pyotr Ilyich treated Ukraine with great love,” said Yury Rybchinsky, member of the Supervisory Board of the Conservatory, songwriter. Opera singer Anatoly Kocherga proposed to hold a music competition named after Tchaikovsky in Ukraine.

As a result of the meeting, the academic and supervisory councils and the staff of the academy adopted an appeal to the President of Ukraine, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture and Information Policy, which refers to the "insecurity of manipulating the name of Tchaikovsky as an imperial narrative." In the appeal, they also ask "to support all measures to return the composer with Ukrainian roots to Ukraine, to protect his heritage from being used by the aggressor to destroy the Ukrainian essence."

11:02

President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev refused to award the Russian Order of Alexander Nevsky, as he decided not to accept either Russian or foreign awards until the end of his powers. This was reported by Kazakh political scientist Yerbol Yedilov, citing several of his sources.

Tokaev's press secretary Ruslan Zheldibai confirmed this information to Tengrinews.kz.

At the same time, the press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov , told Podyom that "no awards were planned."

at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum Yesterday, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said that Kazakhstan would most likely not recognize the self-proclaimed Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics.

The previous president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, became a Knight of the Order of Alexander Nevsky in 2015.

10:01

Five people injured in the shelling in Lysichansk were evacuated to the Dnepropetrovsk region, writes the head of the Luhansk regional administration Serhiy Gaidai.

According to him , in Severodonetsk , and the Russian military is again shelling the bridges connecting the city with Lisichansk - although these bridges are no longer suitable for movement. continues street fighting

9:21

Russian troops launched six missile attacks on the Kremenchuk oil refinery, according to the head of the Poltava regional administration Dmitry Lunin. Two more blows fell on the thermal power plant.

There were no casualties.

The plant, Lunin noted, is not working. The last time it came under fire was on hit it May 13, when more than 20 rockets .

9:07

The number of civilians whose deaths in Ukraine have been confirmed by the UN has exceeded 4,500.

As of June 17, 4,509 civilians were killed (including 294 children), 5,585 were injured. The UN suggests that many more people actually died and suffered, but it is still impossible to reliably confirm data from many cities (including Mariupol, Izyum and Severodonetsk).

Results of the 114th day of the war

In a mass grave near Lisichansk, according to The New York Times, 300 people, both civilians and military, can be buried.

The European Broadcasting Union refused Ukraine to host Eurovision in 2023 for security reasons. Most likely, the competition will be held in the UK.

Ukraine has decided to introduce a visa regime with Russia from July 1.

The European Commission has recommended granting Ukraine the status of a candidate for EU membership. For Ukraine to receive this status, all EU countries must vote for this decision unanimously.

"Important stories" named the names of eight Russian soldiers who, during the occupation of Bucha, called from the mobile phone of a local resident Ivan Skiba. Three of them later died.

Cover photo: Gleb Garanich / Reuters / Scanpix**